Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame...it's the last thought in the process.

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.